# The Man in the Queue — Character guide

> Key figures in The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey.

- [Inspector Grant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/inspector_grant.md): Grant moves through London's boarding houses and railway termini with the patience of a man who knows luck closes most cases and hates admitting it. His gorge rises at a killer who stabs from behind, yet his own heart mi
- [Gerald Lamont](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/gerald_lamont.md): Lamont shared rooms with Bert Sorrell for four years, the bright one to Sorrell's quiet spells, and left Mrs. Everett's house the morning of the murder bound for new lodgings. His statement in the train carries a convict
- [Bert Sorrell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/bert_sorrell.md): Sorrell lived eight years with Mrs. Everett and four with Lamont, a steady presence who insisted no one see him off at Southampton. He handed his landlady a parcel of money with instructions not to open it, a gesture tha
- [Danny Miller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/danny_miller.md): Miller belongs to the cast of small figures Grant's men turn up as they work south London like hounds in cover, each one remembering what interests them most and connecting it, humanly, to everything else. His testimony 
- [Mrs. Everett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/mrs_everett.md): Mrs. Everett keeps the only photographs of the two men and hands them over without being asked, a gesture Grant reads as honesty rather than guilt. Her London indifference is genuine: Richmond might as well be Ontario, a
- [Albert Sorrell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/albert_sorrell.md): Albert Sorrell belongs to the thin trail of relations Grant follows when the obvious leads run dry, part of the quiet domestic history behind a man who seemed to have no one. His connection to Bert sharpens the question 
- [Ray Marcable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/ray_marcable.md): Ray Marcable belongs to the stage world of last nights and gossip columns, the kind of woman a man might build a secret life around without her ever quite noticing. Her self-absorption is almost protective: she recalls a
- [Miss Dinmont](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/miss_dinmont.md): Miss Dinmont presides over a sickroom on the west coast, calm, capable, and serenely unbothered by the fact that her patient is wanted for murder. She brews tea by the open window and judges a man guilty simply because t
- [James Ratcliffe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/james_ratcliffe.md): James Ratcliffe exists at the edge of the case as a husband whose wife, Margaret, holds a clue Grant cannot afford to spook. His presence shadows the Eastbourne plan: Grant borrows a woman companion precisely so that Mrs
- [Simpson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/simpson.md): Simpson goes undercover as a gardener and general helper, trading his dignity for the confidences of cooks, helps, and a ladies' committee that cannot agree on anything. His gift is for the small, unguarded remark — a wi
- [Mr. Drysdale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/mr_drysdale.md): A man questioned in connection with the murder.
- [Raoul Legarde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/raoul_legarde.md): A foreign acquaintance of the victim.
- [Williams](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/williams.md): A woman who gives evidence to the police.
- [Laury Murray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/laury_murray.md): A friend of the victim's family.
- [Mullins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/mullins.md): A police officer assisting Grant.
- [The Levantine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/the_levantine.md): A mysterious figure connected to the crime.
- [Mrs. Wallis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/mrs_wallis.md): A woman who provides information to Grant.
- [Marcel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/marcel.md): A servant or associate of the victim.
- [Yeudall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/yeudall.md): A man who provides information to the police.
- [Logan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/logan.md): A police sergeant working with Grant.
- [Rosie Markham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/rosie_markham.md): A young woman connected to the case.
- [Dr. Anderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/dr_anderson.md): A doctor who examines the victim.
- [Golly Gollan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/golly_gollan.md): A friend of the victim.
- [Faith Brothers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/faith_brothers.md): A group of performers mentioned in the story.
- [Margaret Ratcliffe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_queue_se/characters/margaret_ratcliffe.md): James Ratcliffe's wife.

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